Mikhail Svechnikov

Mikhail Stepanovich Svechnikov (30 September 1882-26 August 1938) was a Colonel in the Red Army during the Finnish Civil War and the Russian Civil War.

Biography
Mikhail Svechnikov was born in Ust-Medveditskaya, Russian Empire in 1882, and he entered the Imperial Russian Army in 1901. He defected to the Red Army following the Russian Revolution in 1917, and he served as a military adviser to the Finnish Red Guards during the Finnish Civil War. In February 1918, he became commander-in-chief of the Northern Front, and he was replaced by Hugo Salmela. Svechnikov then fought in the Russian Civil War, working as a military lecturer after 1922. He was transferred to the Frunze Military Academy in 1934, but he was arrested in 1937 during the Great Purge and executed by a firing squad in Moscow in 1938 for participating in a "fascist conspiracy".